Granta 138: Journeys

What are the ethics of writing about a place you may visit only briefly and view with the eyes of an outsider? With Granta's long tradition of travel writing in mind, we ask some of the world's best writers: is travel writing dead in 2016?

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Will Atkins investigates a killing across the US-Mexico border

Xan Rice goes back to school in South Africa

Edna O'Brien: 'Chekhov's Ladies'

David Flusfeder visits record factories in Detroit and California

All the way up London's Holloway Road with Tim Adams

Laura Vapynar: 'Vladimir in Love'